Catherine Hardwicke

A prolific art director and production designer in the 1980s and 1990s, Catherine Hardwicke made an impressive leap to the director's chair with 2003's harrowing "Thirteen. " Inspired by the turbulent...
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Actress Toni Collette has gone bald to play a woman battling breast cancer in her new Drew Barrymore drama Miss You Already. The Sixth Sense star shaved off her long locks in preparation for the role, and she showed off her drastic new look in behind-the-scenes photos taken on set in London.
In one of the snaps, published on People.com, a make-up free Collette smiles as she poses alongside Barrymore, while a second picture shows the Australian actress all dressed and ready for the shoot.
Miss You Already, about two childhood best friends battling major medical issues, is being directed by Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke.

The blockbuster Twilight saga is to be revived in the form of short films and released on Facebook.com.
The fifth and final installment of the hit vampire franchise, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, was released two years ago, but bosses at the Lionsgate studio have decided to resurrect the story online, according to The New York Times. Film executives have teamed up with bosses at Facebook to finance five mini-movies titled The Storytellers - New Creative Voices of The Twilight Saga, which will be based on the franchise's characters.
Five aspiring female directors will be chosen to helm the short films by a judging panel which includes series star Kristen Stewart, series author Stephenie Meyer, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and actresses Kate Winslet, Octavia Spencer and Julie Bowen. The films, which will not feature any of the original cast members, are slated to premiere on Facebook in 2015.

Israeli director Talya Lavie has become the toast of this year's (14) Tribeca Film Festival after picking up two major awards for her comedy Zero Motivation. The movie, about a unit of young Israeli soldiers, was named Best Narrative Feature and the winner of the Nora Ephron Prize, which honours the work of female filmmakers, at a gala in New York on Thursday night (24Apr14).
Paul Schneider and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi picked up acting prizes for their roles in Goodbye to All That and Human Capital, respectively, and the Best Screenplay (Narrative) was handed to Guillaume Nicloux for his work on The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, which also earned the Special Jury Mention. Meanwhile, Marshall Curry claimed the Best Documentary Feature prize for Point and Shoot, and Alan Hicks picked up the Best New Documentary Director title for Keep On Keepin' On, about the relationship between jazz legend Clark Terry and a young blind piano prodigy.
The winners of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Awards were chosen by 33 jury members, including Whoopi Goldberg, Jeff Goldblum, Lake Bell, Toni Collette and directors Catherine Hardwicke and Gary Ross. In total, the juries handed out $150,000 (£93,750) in prize money. The film festival wraps up on Sunday (27Apr14).

Jeff Goldblum, Lake Bell, Toni Collette and the directors of Twilight and The Hunger Games, Catherine Hardwicke and Gary Ross, have been announced as jury members at this year's (14) Tribeca Film Festival in New York. They will join Whoopi Goldberg, Heather Graham, Anton Yelchin and Sting's actress daughter Mickey Sumner among the 33 people who will oversee the competition in seven categories, from World Competition and World Narrative to World Documentary.
In total, the juries hand out $150,000 (£93,750) in prize money.
The film festival begins next week (16Apr14) and runs until 27 April (14).

Actor Max Irons infuriated his agent by turning down a lucrative role in a blockbuster franchise because he had already appeared in two teen-focused movies. The Brit, whose father is actor Jeremy Irons, got his big break starring opposite Amanda Seyfried in 2011's Red Riding Hood, a fantasy film by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke.
He then played the romantic lead in the film version of Stephenie Meyer's novel The Host, but he subsequently turned down a big money role in a major franchise to avoid being typecast - much to the chagrin of his agent.
He tells Britain's The Times newspaper, "I was asked to audition for another franchise recently. It was a very similar role to ones I've played before, and I said to my agent: 'I can't do this.' And they said: 'Don't get all precious now, because this one will boost you right to the top of the pecking order and there'll be another zero at the end of all your pay cheques.' And I said, 'The problem is, if I were to do it, I would want to quit.' It's just not fulfilling'."
Irons is currently shooting Posh, the big screen adaptation of a play about an upper-class boys club at Britain's prestigious Oxford University, and he is convinced choosing thought-provoking roles will ensure career longevity.
He adds, "Something like Posh might actually make a difference to the way people think about things. That's much more exciting. But if you play the six-pack game, there are 100 people behind you who look the same and can do the same, waiting to take your place."

New mum Evan Rachel Wood took to Twitter.com on Thursday (08Aug13) to remember the cast and crew of her 10-year-old movie Thirteen. The actress' memory was tweaked by the film's director Catherine Hardwicke, when she tweeted, "Can you believe thirteen was released 10 years ago?".
Wood, who starred in the film alongside then-newcomer Nikki Reed, who co-wrote the project, and Holly Hunter, replied, "Seems longer to me. Happy anniversary! Miss all you guys."
She later added, "thanks for changing my life catherine (sic)."

The actress admits she had never watched Idol before the season that featured McDonald and it was a huge coincidence that they met on the red carpet at Twilight filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke's movie Red Riding Hood.
She explains, "Taylor (Lautner)... is really into American Idol, so we would have Idol dates while we were filming.
"I never go to premieres of films I'm not in but I've known Catherine Hardwicke since I was five years old and she called me and asked if I'd go to the one in Vancouver. I actually wasn't in Vancouver.
"I was driving home from the airport in L.A. and she said, 'Can you stop by the premiere?' My hair was dirty, I was a mess, I called my dad and I said, 'I'll pick you up, we're going on a date'... It was 4pm, I had to find a dress, I was tired, hadn't washed my hair and had to be there at six."
At the premiere she spotted her Idol idol and her dad Seth helped her pluck up the courage to speak to him: "My dad said, 'You should go and say hi.' Mind you I hadn't been on a date in, like, a year and a half."
And the magic moment was captured for eternity on camera.
Reed tells U.S. news show Access Hollywood Live, "You can YouTube that moment... It's so horrible... It's the worst thing... It's something like me going, 'Oh, wow, hi, you're awesome and I should go hide under a rock now'."
She tells Zooey magazine, "I walked over to Paul and knew I was in love within one second of saying hi. It was the craziest thing that has ever happened to me in my life."
The couple wed seven months later, in October, 2011

Reed, a firm believer in karma, refused to steal anything from the set and only accepted the footwear when Stewart insisted on gifting them to her.
And now she has no idea what to do with them.
She tells WENN, "I believe too much in karma but I should've just stolen something! I mean why not, as far as I know we're not making any more of these movies. The only thing I have is my baseball shoes from the first film and I was too afraid to take them and Kristen went back to do reshoots and she brought them home for me.
"I've never worn them because they're covered in mud and I think it's wrong to wash the mud off! I can't wear muddy shoes so they live in a box and I don't know what to do with them."
Meanwhile, Stewart took home the rings her character Bella wears in the Twilight films, insisting they have huge personal value to her.
She says, "They were really important to me. Her mother gives her a moon ring in the beginning which fully and completely reminds me of (director) Catherine Hardwicke every time I look at it. I kept the engagement ring too. Those are extremely important to me. I love those rings."

City of God filmmaker Fernando Meirelles had initially been tapped to direct the project in 2010, but movie producers later approached Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke, and now the man behind acclaimed movie Precious has become the latest name attached to the film, titled after the singer's hit song Get It While You Can.
Production is due to begin early next year (13), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Get It While You Can isn't the only Joplin biopic in the works - Tony Award-winning star Nina Arianda is also set to portray the late icon in rival film Janis.
Joplin died from a drug overdose in 1970, aged 27.

The filmmaker had already tapped Stewart to play emotionally-guarded Bella Swan in early 2007 and she had narrowed down the candidates for her vampire love interest Edward Cullen when Pattinson walked in for an audition.
Hardwicke tells Elle magazine, "Every two hours, I had another guy come over to my house. Rob and Kristen sat down at the table and did the biology scene. I felt the sparks. I could see the attraction. Kristen was very vocal - she knew she had the strongest connection with Rob. I said, 'Let me have a day to see if it translates to the screen.'"
Watching from afar, Hardwicke knew the two were destined to become a couple so she pulled 21-year-old Pattinson aside to inform the British actor of America's age of consent laws, which would make a romance between the pair illegal until Stewart, then 17, reached her next birthday.
Hardwicke adds, "I warned him, 'She's underage, don't even think about it! It's a law in our country.'"
But that didn't keep Pattinson away - he and Stewart struck up a relationship on set and they've been dating ever since.

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Worked as art director on "Mr. Destiny," a movie about a former baseball player who gets a second chance

Directed the biblical film "The Nativity Story" with Keisha Castle-Hughes as the Virgin Mary

Served as production designer for such films as "Tombstone" (1993) starring Kurt Russell, "Mad City" (1997) starring John Travolta and "The Newton Boys" (1998) starring Matthew McConaughey

Was a production designer for "Vanilla Sky" starring Tom Cruise

Made directorial debut with "Thirteen"; co-written with Nikki Reed, who also starred in the film; earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay

Directed the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling book, "Twilight"

Directed the fictionalized version of "Lords of Dogtown," based on skate legends Jay Adams, Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta and inspired by the popular documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys"; penned by Stacy Peralta

Moved to California to study at UCLA’s Film School

Summary

A prolific art director and production designer in the 1980s and 1990s, Catherine Hardwicke made an impressive leap to the director's chair with 2003's harrowing "Thirteen. " Inspired by the turbulent life of an ex-boyfriend's teenage daughter, the indie drama about a young girl's descent into a dangerous lifestyle was widely praised by critics and audiences alike for its gritty honesty. Hardwicke followed this with "Lords of Dogtown" (2005), an unsentimental look at teen skateboarders in the early eighties. In 2008, she tackled the biggest project of her directorial career with "Twilight," a Gothic romance about a schoolgirl's budding relationship with a young, brooding vampire. Despite the fantastical nature of the subject matter, Hardwicke brought her trademark realism to the project; a combination that was the key to her status as one of Hollywood's most challenging and independent-minded directors.